Sentence examples for shell of a turtle from inspiring English sources

The largest scales are the scutes covering the shell of a turtle or the plates of a crocodile.

The fossilized carapace (shell) of a turtle from the Hell Creek formation of eastern Montana, USA; about 65 million years ago.

These are made of a kind of press-molded glass that Tiffany named for its resemblance to the shell of a turtle.

Glyptodon and its close relatives, the glyptodonts, were encased from head to tail in thick, protective armour resembling in shape the shell of a turtle but composed of bony plates much like the covering of an armadillo.

For example, what if a golf ball hit near but not in a water hazard lodges beneath the shell of a turtle, and the turtle then dives into the water hazard with the ball?

Beautiful Lebanese letter openers for $45, made from camel bone trimmed with coral, turquoise, and lapis and inlaid with silver and brass ("I found an extra box, so I can afford to be generous"), and cloisonné figurines of a snake sitting on the shell of a turtle ("showing basically that adversaries can be friends").

Among the American Indians some tribes used roughhewn wooden coffins; others sometimes enclosed the corpse between the upper and lower shells of a turtle.

They found a shiny new truck that had purple vinyl wrap, decorated with cookies, and tapped artist and musician Yellow from the band Peelander-Z to paint the truck, making the cookies into the shell of a giant turtle reminiscent of Gamera, the giant evil turtle that battled Godzilla (it all makes sense when you see it, trust me).

This often involves attaching a satellite transmitter to the shell of a sea turtle and tagging it so that they can record the turtle's migration patterns.

His Discworld floats on the shell of a giant turtle "somewhere in the multiverse".

Take the Discworld itself, a flat disc balanced on the backs of four elephants who are in turn standing on the shell of a giant turtle.